Eurynome

This article is about the mythological figures. For other uses, see Eurynome (disambiguation).

Eurynomê (/jʊəˈrɪnəmi/; Ancient Greek: Εὐρυνόμη, from εὐρύς, eurys, "broad" and νομός, nomos, "pasture" or νόμος "law") is a name that refers to the following characters in Greek mythology:

• Eurynome, pre-Olympian queen and wife of Ophion
• Eurynome (Oceanid), mother of the Charites
• Eurynome, one of the Cadmiades, the six daughters of Cadmus and Harmonia in a rare version of the myth. Her sisters were Ino, Agaue, Semele, Kleantho and Eurydike.^[1]
• Eurynome or Eurymede, daughter of King Nisus of Megara and mother of Bellerophon by Poseidon or Glaucus.^[2]
• Eurynome, mother by the Persian Orchamus of Leucothoe whom Helios loved.^[3]
• Eurynome, wife of Lycurgus of Arcadia and mother of Amphidamas, Epochus, Ancaeus, and Iasus.^[4][5] Elsewhere is also called Cleophyle or Antinoe.^[6]
• Eurynome, daughter of Iphitus and mother of Adrastus of Argos by Talaus.^[7] In some accounts, she was called the daughter of Apollo.^[8]
• Eurynome, waiting woman of Penelope in the Odyssey.^[9]
• Eurynome, a handmaiden of Harmonia.^[10]
• Eurynome, a Lemnian woman. The goddess Pheme paid a visit to her in the guise of her friend Neaera to inform her that Eurynome's husband Codrus was being unfaithful to her with a Thracian woman.^[11]
• Eurynome, an alternate name for Eidothea, the daughter of Proteus.^[12]
• Eurynome, a daughter of Asopus and mother of Ogygias by Zeus, according to a late source.^[13]

See also

• Eurynomos

Notes

1. Malalas, Chronography 2.39
2. Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 43(a)70–82 M–W, where her name is restored by conjecture based upon Hyginus, Fabulae 157. The manuscripts of the Bibliotheca 1.9.3 give her name as Eurymede and names her mortal husband Glaucus as Bellerophon's father.
3. Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.208 ff.
4. Apollodorus, 3.9.2
5. Pausanias, 8.4.10 mentions only Ancaeus and Epochus.
6. Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.164
7. Hyginus, Fabulae 70
8. Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. Albemarle Street, London. p. 19.
9. Homer, Odyssey 17.495
10. Nonnus, 41.312
11. Valerius Flaccus, 2.136 ff.
12. Zenodotus in scholia on Homer, Odyssey 4.366
13. Clement of Alexandria, Recognitiones 10.21

References

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• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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• Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonauticon. Otto Kramer. Leipzig. Teubner. 1913. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at the Theoi Project.
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• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940-1942. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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